[TriLUG] How to get laptop earphone jack to work?

[Jim Ray]

Sounds to me like time to whip out your soldering iron and put in another jack. There is a little spring thingie that makes/breaks contact when you insert the jack into the plug. If it ain't making and breaking, then you gotta fix that part first.

Stupid question of the day: are you sure you're not plugging the jack into the mic hole???

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Jim
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Steve Litt
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 11:50 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] How to get laptop earphone jack to work?

On Friday 11 January 2008 09:03, Glenn Starling wrote:

> *	Check the way that particular laptop was "supposed to work."  There
> may have been a software combination (function key, etc.) that would
> activate the headphone.  I don't have any experience with the Compaq
> Presario V133CL.  Without knowing, it is difficult to tell if it is
> hardware or software.

The manual says when you stick in the 3.5mm stereo plug, it's supposed to turn 
off the speakers and play through the plug. This unit does neither.

It's hard to conceive of a data-centric way to defeat this, so I'm suspecting 
hardware.

Thanks for the helpful suggestion.

SteveT
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